Flowing Effect animated transfer cable puts other cables to shame

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Whether you have an iPhone, a Samsung Galaxy S3 or a Kindle Fire HD, the chances are good that you don’t pay particularly close attention to cable you use to charge your gadget. If your power cord were somehow imbued with a cool animation effect that made it look like you could see power flowing into your phone, you might care a little bit more.

There’s never not something cool going on at Adafruit Industries. Their website serves as a fantastic one stop shop for the hardware hacker in your life, regardless of skill level. They offer kits for everything from watches to Raspberry Pi accessories, and if it is possible to open source it you will find it on their GitHub. Of the many things that fill the shelves of their online store, there is the occasional trinket that stands out as something not exactly necessary to survive everyday life, but well suited to increase your geek cred a little. The lastet example of this is their new “Flowing Effect” cables for just about every mobile gadget out there.

Whether you need a 30 pin, Lightning, or microUSB cable, Adafruit has a flowing cable for you. These cables are a modification of their 30 foot battery powered flowing effect cables. These 2.5foot USB cables work just fine as regular USB cables, though the inverter in the cable will steal some power from your charging process if you’re trying to use a battery pack to get your phone through the day. Connected to your laptop or right into the wall, you are unlikely to notice that your phone charges any slower.

Adafruit has these cables available in white or black, with the blue flowing light through the middle of either cable. If you’re looking for a microUSB or 30-pin cable, you’ll be spending $14.95 for that short shot of cable. If you need a Lightning cable, you’re looking at paying twice that. Head over to the Adafruit website to pick one up for yourself.